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Entry for the Story War fanart competition.
Haven’t been drawing too much lately so it’s kinda lame.
oh man garg don’t use your holy magic for evil! oh man!
centaur’s probably gettin a lot of brokeback mountain cowboy action so maybe the punishment is just and rightful in the eyes of the church. and the gargoyle’s eyes ARE technically the literal eyes of the church so. maybe there’s a loophole there.
VONDELL oh my GOD
(Source: thecheesedoesnotwearme, via itsvondell)
Entry for the Story War fanart competition.
Haven’t been drawing too much lately so it’s kinda lame.
oh man garg don’t use your holy magic for evil! oh man!
(Source: thecheesedoesnotwearme)
(Story War is a storytelling card game we’re developing, follow for more info)
Our last post got over 100 responses! OVER ONE HUNDRED! I’ve spent the last few hours reading all of them and I’m blown away. It feels amazing to see such great fan fiction based on something you helped create! I wish we had more prototypes to give away, but we only have three to spare, and we decided they’d go to:
- themiragechild for his legitimately hilarious story!
- icychase for her RAMPANT ENTHUSIASM!
- coloursofextraordinary for her long, serious, and good story!
Man okay so! With these three prototypes being sent off to these folk (once I track down their shipping addresses) we’ll only have a few left to continue to do playtests with! (If you’re in NYC, we’re doing this NYC playtest every single Saturday at 2pm.)
But ahhhh I don’t really care anyway, I wanna do another giveaway, because you guys are amazing! I’ll just have to order some more prototypes once I send the next batch out next week. Anyway, here is how we’re going to give away the next few prototypes:
Fan Art Contest Rules: Take any two characters from the above photoset and draw them fighting each other. Post it to your blog and tag it as #Story War so we can find it. You don’t have to reblog this post, but doing so would be super cool and helpful! (Optionally: Set the fight in one of the battlefields shown above.)
Okay! Fan art takes a little longer than fan fiction so I’m going to give you guys an entire week to do this. On Sunday, Jan 6th, I’ll go through the #Story War tag and pick some winners. I’ll even be periodically reblogging some throughout the week!
I’m so excited to see what you guys come up with!
- Brad
A lot of you probably saw this one already but I ain’t reblogged it yet. It was totally a blast reading all of the story contest entries so thank you so much to everyone who entered. And congrats to the winners!
And also a potential congrats to the future winners of this contest!
Check out this 3D gif of one of our Warrior cards, the Rat King!
3D gif by Dain Fagerholm, original art by Vondell Swain.
(To learn more about our card game Story War, read this post)
Story War is a subjectivity game where you try to convince the judge that the Warrior depicted in your card’s artwork could defeat the Warrior depicted in your opponent’s artwork. So the art is very important! But it’s also important that each Warrior is based on a cultural touchstone, so that players can easily extrapolate what their powers and abilities might be. For example, everyone knows how a vampire or werewolf works.
But I also noticed, while playtesting, that people responded well to cards based on animals - there’s a logic of like, dog beats cat, cat beats rat, bees beat dog - and people can quickly visualize how a fight between those two animals would play out.
So we really needed a rodent card to cover the most common animals but there wasn’t really any rodent in mythology that was prominent enough or powerful enough to work. We were going to just do a plague rat but a plague rat feels like a low level enemy you’d encounter early on in an RPG, and all the Warriors need to be on roughly the same tier in terms of power. So we kinda went a little more “original content” with this Warrior than we did with most of the other ones, who are very much based on real mythological things.
The rat king actually is based on a real mythological thing, but not one that most people are familiar with and also not one that’s very powerful. So we decided to make him a Voltron-like humanoid of rats working together, as opposed to a tangle of uncoordinated rats. He was also partially inspired by the Mouse King from the Nutcracker. And hopefully there’s a little bit of a plague rat implication in there too.
Anyway this guy is really cool and fun to play as! One time the Rat King was in a fight with Medusa, and she turned him to stone - but only PART of him - because Medusa’s petrification curse only works on an individual target at a time, and not a group of individuals. So Medusa really just succeeded in turning the Rat King’s arm into a stone club that he used to bash her face in. It was a really cool battle.
We’re about 75% done with the art for Story War, and we expect to be launching the Kickstarter in mid January. Make sure you follow our blog so we can let you know when Story War goes on sale!
- Brad
Spaceship Skeletal Survey by Josh Lane
Josh’s new series gives new meaning to the term “skeleton crew” HA GET IT because they, oh fuckit, just look for prints available at Society6.
Artist: Twitter
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Photography by Martin Klimas
Photographer Martin Klimas was born in 1971 in Lake of Konstanz, Germany. In his pictures Klimas breaks recognizable objects so they become something else, and stops us just at the moment of transformation. The aspect of destroying is not the most important one in his work. Let’s say it is a catalyst to unleash and study this transformation. The hardest part of his work is to smash so many figurines until he finds one that truly is showing him something new. He is in that sense a sculptor, but he has only a 5000th of a second to build his sculpture.
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